Jeff Dean spent nearly 27 years helping build some of Google’s most important technologies. Now, one of the company’s most influential technical leaders is betting on a more ambitious idea: using artificial intelligence to automate the process of scientific and technological discovery itself. Jeff Dean leaves Google after nearly 27 years Jeff Dean left Google after nearly 27 years to found Discovery Loop, a new company focused on using artificial intelligence to accelerate research in machine learning, science and engineering. ...

ChatGPT is moving beyond a tool used to retrieve and generate information and becoming a software layer capable of executing tasks inside the systems businesses already use. Its integration with Google Drive shows why this shift could be more significant than a simple productivity update. What changed in ChatGPT’s Google Drive integration ChatGPT moves from retrieval to action ChatGPT could already work with information stored in connected services. The more significant change is its ability to take actions directly on Google Drive files, including operations involving Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. ...

Robin Vince, CEO of BNY, is defending a view of artificial intelligence that goes beyond simply reducing costs. For him, one of the most important gains may be the capacity technology frees up for people and companies to do more, develop new products and increase the value delivered to customers. Who Is Robin Vince and Which Bank Does He Lead From Goldman Sachs to BNY Robin Vince is chairman and CEO of BNY, one of the largest financial institutions in the United States. He became the bank’s chief executive in 2022 after building a long career at Goldman Sachs, where he held leadership positions across risk management, operations, treasury and international businesses. ...

Gemini has surpassed 1 billion monthly users, putting Google much closer to OpenAI in the race for AI assistants. The number is striking because of its scale, but its most important implication is how the competitive landscape is changing: the next battle will not be fought only over users, but over usage frequency, distribution, agents and revenue. Gemini Reaches a Scale That Changes the Competition The 1 Billion User Milestone Google reported that Gemini surpassed 1 billion monthly users in August 2026. The milestone makes the AI assistant one of the company’s largest-scale products and represents a sharp acceleration from the 950 million users disclosed only a few weeks earlier. ...

Security researchers have uncovered a weakness in a layer that normally remains invisible to users: the intermediate data produced by large AI models. The case involves OpenAI, Anthropic and Google and shows why securing AI requires more than protecting the final answer. What Researchers Discovered in AI APIs Researchers found a technique capable of recovering parts of the hidden reasoning produced by ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini under certain conditions. The discovery involves the way intermediate information is processed and reused by APIs. ...

AI agents are moving beyond simply responding to commands and are beginning to execute tasks with greater autonomy. For businesses, this creates a major opportunity for automation, but it also raises a question that once seemed distant: who is responsible when a machine does something nobody authorized? The Problem Is No Longer Just What AI Says AI agents have moved from generating text to executing tasks The biggest change brought by AI agents is not simply the quality of their responses. Their real differentiator is the ability to receive a goal, break down a task, use tools and execute multiple steps without requiring a person to approve every move. ...

Technology companies are facing a shift that goes beyond adopting artificial intelligence tools: the way productivity, growth, and economic value are measured is also being reshaped by the technology. AI Is Changing What It Means to Be an Efficient Technology Company AI is beginning to change the relationship between growth, human labor, and revenue across the technology industry. The effect is particularly relevant for services companies, where workforce size and billable hours have historically helped represent a company’s revenue-generating capacity. ...

As companies race to bring AI agents and language models into the enterprise, there is a less visible stage that can determine whether those systems actually work: turning real-world documents into data that AI can understand. That is where Mistral AI is making another move. Mistral OCR 4.1 targets a problem that appears before the AI generates an answer Mistral OCR 4.1 is an update to OCR 4 launched by Mistral AI on August 13, 2026, with the goal of improving the understanding of complex pages, particularly documents packed with annotations, references, tables, and different visual elements. ...

Google has just added a new piece to a race that is changing shape. With Gemini 3.7 Flash, the company is not simply trying to build a better AI that talks to users. It is strengthening its position in the race for models that can code, use tools and participate in the execution of business tasks. Google launches Gemini 3.7 Flash with a focus on coding and AI agents Google launched Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 13, 2026, presenting the new model as an option focused on coding, software development and AI agent workflows. The move puts Google back at the center of a competition involving OpenAI and Anthropic. ...

Content produced by artificial intelligence has always been difficult to distinguish from material written by a person. Now, Anthropic is trying to change that relationship in a quiet way: Claude has started embedding a mark that users cannot see but machines can potentially identify. The move comes as governments and technology companies increase pressure for greater transparency around artificial intelligence. The question is no longer simply whether a piece of text looks AI-generated. It is increasingly about whether its origin can be technically established. ...